Tracking Carbon Emissions from China’s Textile Sector

The textile industry is usually a high carbon industry. Based on material flow analysis’s tow fundamental and well-established scientific principles of system approach and mass balance, input-output model is introduced to track CO2 emissions from China’s textile sector. Estimations showed that the textile sector was responsible for 2.7% of China’s production sectors’ direct CO2 emission, ranking 10th among defined 53 productions sectors. And the total CO2 footprint for producing domestic and foreign final use by textile sector was at 208 Mt CO2 with 95% from domestic energy use, directly and indirectly, while 93% for supporting exports.